A quick update to everyone who's placed any pre-orders or orders in general lately. Posting here as there's no chance in hell I can manage to respond to everyone individually.
We are a bit behind on mail-order activities due to the immense amount of work here.
All CAVURN and ORDEALS / DAETHORN pre-orders are being shipped promptly.
Delayed releases:
TAPHOS - Come Ethereal Somberness CASSETTE
ABYTHIC - Beneath Ancient Portals CD & CASSETTE
BLACK MASS PERVERTOR - A Life Beyond the Walls of Flesh CD & CASSETTE
And of course the merchandise nightmare we hope to have solved a.s.a.p.
OSSUARIUM // DRAGHKAR - Calcified Trophies of Violence / World Unraveled 12”MLP
Limited to 250 copies.
Made specifically in time for the two bands joint tour in August. Includes the material from Ossuarium's "Calcified Trophies of Violence" Demo & Draghkar's "World Unraveled" Demo.
Bandcamp:
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ossuarium-draghkar
Webshop:
http://shop.bloodharvest.se/?product=ossuarium-draghkar-calcified-trophies-of-violence-world-unraveled-12mlp
THIS IS A PREORDER. SHIPPING STARTS ON OR AROUND AUGUST 31st!
(We are expecting these way before that, but to save us all the headache…)
Today, war metal upstarts Goat Disciple stream the entirety of their striking debut EP, Wolfcult Domination, at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The CD and cassette versions shall be released on June 15th via Blood Harvest Records and Helter Skelter Productions, while the vinyl version will follow later on July 14th.
Hear Goat Disciple's Wolfcult Domination in its entirety exclusively here...
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2018/06/11/an-ncs-ep-premiere-and-a-review-goat-disciple-wolfcult-domination/
Hailing from Salt Lake City, Utah, Goat Disciple are a quintet who unapologetically craft WAR METAL. In the strictest sense, their particular style of spurn 'n' churn melds the most barbaric recesses of black metal to the molten muscle of death metal. As such, their four-song Wolfcult Domination is both meatgrinder and rusty tank, surging ever forward with buzzsaw riffing - with the emphasis truly on RIFFS, unlike so much so-called "war metal" - and often dipping into downtempo vortexes that are nothing short of world-eating. Throughout the EP's 24-minute entirety, Goat Disciple remain locked in, deadly and deliriously, playing with a passion like their lives truly depended on it, imparting an all-too-rare sense of physicality amongst a morass of usually lifeless "aggression" pedaled so much and so callously by the underground. References to be made include godfathers Diocletian but also Angelcorpse at their berserker best and classic Katharsis; nevertheless, on the strength of this opening salvo, Goat Disciple are surely on their way to marking the battlefield in their own manner. Prepare for Wolfcult Domination!
Full preparations can be made exclusively, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com.
Preorder info can be found here.
http://shop.bloodharvest.se/?product=goat-disciple-wolfcult-domination-12mlp-cd-digi-mc-preorder
or:
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wolfcult-domination
Tracklisting for Goat Disciple's Wolfcult Domination
1. Oreb Zaraq
2. Black Skull Hypnogogue
3. Torture Siddhi
4. Mammon
BLOOD HARVEST to release new HACAVITZ album on vinyl - currently streaming in full
Today, Blood Harvest Records and Helter Skelter Productions set August 10th as the international release date for Hacavitz's cult fifth album, Nex Nihil, on vinyl LP format. Limited to 250 copies.
One of the underground's best-kept secrets, Mexico's Hacavitz have been pursuing an intense and challenging vision of death metal for nearly 15 years now. Having released albums on such labels as Moribund and Dark Descent, they returned to more underground-rooted auspices last year with Nex Nihil, which is now seeing its first release on vinyl. Here, the power-trio explore supremely blackened textures and more epic song structures, culminating in the unforgettable 11-minute whirlwind "Relentless Sleep." Where so many cheap carbon-copies get so much attention under the banner of "death metal," it is often that the true mavericks get unjustly overlooked, and Blood Harvest endeavors to rectify this with the vinyl release of Hacavitz's gargantuan Nex Nihil!
In the leadup to its vinyl release, the entirety of Nex Nihil is currently streaming at Blood Harvest's Bandcamp.
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nex-nihil
Preorder info can be found here:
http://shop.bloodharvest.se/?product=hacavitz-nex-nihil-12lp-preorder
Full Album Stream: Taphos - "Come Ethereal Somberness" | Decibel Magazine
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2018/06/05/full-album-stream-taphos-come-ethereal-somberness/
Artwork ready for the upcoming Caedes Cruenta / Cult of Eibon split 7" vinyl EP. A must for the true worshippers of ancient Greek black metal ala Thou Art Lord, Rotting Christ & Varathron, the 7" vinyl is scheduled for autumn 2018 release. More info will follow soon!
You are listening to the song "Sinews Of Blood And Vein", by Valdrin, from their upcoming album Two Carrion Talismans.
Release date: September 28th, 2018
Pre-order: http://shop.bloodharvest.se/?s=valdrin&post_type=product
VALDRIN are one of the metal underground's best-kept secrets. Hailing from Ohio, VALDRIN formed in 2010 with the intent to play a unique form of black/death metal using a lyrical concept called the "Ausadjur Mythos." This story combines many aspects of various ancient mythologies and occult practices, all synthesized into one grandiose tale, told through the eyes of the protagonist Valdrin Ausadjur. The debut album Beyond The Forest was released in June 2014, garnering critical acclaim in reviews through many different zines, including Decibel. Since the release of Beyond The Forest, VALDRIN have been playing various live gigs throughout the American Midwest while completing the recording of their second album, Two Carrion Talismans.
At last upon us, Two Carrion Talismans sees VALDRIN going from strength to strength. Undoubtedly death metal through and through, there is a pervasive sense of strangeness that seeps through every nook and every note of Two Carrion Talismans. Its compositions endlessly spiral and shapeshift upon themselves, all whilst maintaining a highly memorable quality; VALDRIN are truly grounded in METAL music, but choose death metal as the primary platform. And yet, with their seamlessly blended usage of synths adding a most haunting and even levitational quality, Two Carrion Talismans takes on a decidedly blackened aspect, imparting a sense of mysticism and even wonder to their muscular attack. It all blends together into a deliriously dark and daresay velvety experience, like drowning into an inky beyond much like the cover art's protagonist.
All told, VALDRIN in general and Two Carrion Talismans in particular impart a truly unique timelessness, one that feels vaguely/specifically mid '90s "retro" on the surface, but more accurately - and more beyond/below said surface - an incredibly nuanced and textured approach to craftsmanship and narrative voice that soundly puts it in a class all its own. With more touring across the USA planned for this year, Two Carrion Talismans grandly marks the arrival of VALDRIN!
HAR is still looking for a few dates to fill all the September dates of their Debut European tour in Germany, Netherlands and the area.
Any Promoters interested can contact the band via their FB page.
@harblackmetal
Dates needed are the 7th or 16th in Berlin area, 9th, 10th and 12th.
Route can be seen in the added flyer
Checkout their latest E.P "Visitation":
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/visitation
HELTER SKELTER & BLOOD HARVEST proudly presents Plaguestorm's first official release, "Eternal Throne"- An EP featuring 4 tracks of orthodox Swedish black metal released as 12" vinyl and digital.
Release date: July 9th 2018
Pre-order your copy now from the Helter Skelter bandcamp:
https://helterskelterproductions.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-throne
or the Blood Harvest bandcamp:
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-throne
Promo-video of the song "With Closed Eyes I Behold":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eEiH0Cqy1c
PLAGUESTORM, one of the Swedish black metal scenes best & most hidden secrets. Hailing from the Swedish city of Malmö, a city with close to a non-existing metal scene, but has recently started to produce bands such as Ultra Silvam & Jordablod.
Having released two cult-demos, PLAGUESTORM finally breaks the ice after four years of silence with the following EP. Recorded in 2015, it was intented to be relased the same year, but faced many hardships and delays, but is finally being showcased to the world three years later. On "Eternal Throne", PLAGUESTORM features four tracks in 21 minutes, where all possible aspects of black metal is being mixed into one, big gruesome bowl where everything from the classic guitar leads of Mercyful Fate, and the chaotic mayhem of Katharsis has it's righteous place. Pure devil-worshipping reaping metal of absolute DEATH.
ABYTHIC - Beneath Ancient Portals (Album)
Full stream through Decibel Mag.
To order: shop.bloodharvest.se
or bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2018/05/07/full-album-stream-abythic-beneath-ancient-portals/
SERPENT RITUAL "Nexvs Diaboli" 12" LP!!!!!
Serpent Ritual debut mini-album "Nexvs Diaboli" scheduled for release June 27th 2018. The mini album features 4 tracks of ritualistic black metal of Death. Co-released by Helter Skelter Blood Harvest & Despise the Sun Records on black 12" vinyl in a limited edition of 500 copies & digital release.
Pre-order your LP now and get the digital release for free, either from the Helter Skelter bandcamp store;
https://helterskelterproductions.bandcamp.com/album/nexvs-diaboli
or the Blood Harvest bandcamp store:
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nexvs-diaboli
Check out the promo-trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r96SxtSHqdU
Today, death metal mavericks Taphos premiere the new track "Ocular Blackness" at heavily trafficked web-portal InvisibleOranges.com. The track hails from the band's highly anticipated debut album, Come Ethereal Somberness, set for international release on June 8th via Blood Harvest Records and Helter Skelter Productions. Hear Taphos' "Ocular Blackness" in its entirety exclusively HERE.
Hot on the heels of Blood Harvest's compilation of the band's first two recordings as Demo MMXVI & 7" EP MMXVII, garnering widespread acclaim and heightening anticipation for their first full-length, at last arrives Taphos' Come Ethereal Somberness. As a debut LP, Come Ethereal Somberness does everything it should: stay consistent to a band's sound established on their demos whilst pointing toward new avenues. Here, Taphos do both, and then some.
Hailing from the same Danish scene as Undergang and Phrenelith, Taphos create a classic - and classically gutted - style of Metal of Death. Their first recording, Demo MMXVI, possessed a darkly thrashing sound highly reminiscent of turn-of-the-'90s death metal on both sides of the Atlantic, as resolutely Scandinavian as it was American, its filthy propulsion as palatably fresh as it was authentically ancient. On the subsequent two-song EP, Taphos' sound becomes more world-eating, their songwriting aims more epic whilst not losing the raw fury of their beginnings.
Now, with Come Ethereal Somberness, they synthesize the two stylistic shifts into something both berzerker and epic, manic and finessed in equal measures. Indeed, Taphos are firing on all songwriting cylinders here, as the energy literally bursts off the charts but retains a sense of composure and daresay class rarely scene in full-blooded death metal. Hammering and hideous yet nevertheless invoking a clarity that never castrates their attack, the quartet render each of these seven central compositions (bookended by moody instrumentals) a story unto itself. Hell, the titles themselves tell that story - "Ocular Blackness," "Insidious Gyres," and the equally telltale "Thrive in Upheaval" and "Impending Peril" among them - and that story is horrific.
New nightmares are here, then, and Taphos will be taking them on the road with a full European tour this month alongside Swedish comrades Degial (dates after the jump). Thus, as its title ominously proclaims, Come Ethereal Somberness! Hear the new, aforementioned track "Ocular Blackness" exclusively, courtesy of InvisibleOranges.com.
Hear the previously revealed (and aforementioned) "Thrive in Upheaval" and "Impending Peril" at Blood Harvest's Bandcamp:
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/come-ethereal-somberness
Preorder info can be found here: http://shop.bloodharvest.se/?s=taphos&post_type=product
Visit InvisibleOranges.com to check out another track, “Ocular Blackness”, from the upcoming TAPHOS album, "Come Ethereal Somberness".
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/taphos-ocular-blackness/
Necroblood / Psychomorphis split album in the works!!!!
Necroblood who entitled their side of the split LP "The Lurking Horror" plays regressive black-death metal exclusively & needs no further introduction. Necroblood contributes with 3 exclusive new songs of utter relentless brutality, presented with an exclusive cover artwork made by no other than ROK (Sadistik Exekution).
Check out the track "Terrorist Antichrist" on our youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14kKeWdTsQM
Psychomorphis entitled their contribution to this split release "Amorphous Chaos" plays extraterestial cthulhu metal straight from the face of Yuggoth. This Canadian/Danish trio features ex members of Sadomator, Morbosidad & members from Necroholocaust, Likfärd and Vomit Angel. Should appeal to fans of early Beherit, Von & Naked Whipper.
Listen to Psychomorphis song "Occular Of Cthulhu":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tudl0NVG7Dc
Available on CD/LP/MC/DIGITAL summer 2018, released on Helter Skelter - Blood Harvest Records (distributed & marketed by Regain Records). Pre-order your format of choice (LP/CD/Cassette or bundle) from our bandcamp store:
https://helterskelterproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-lurking-horror-amorphous-chaos
ABYTHIC premiere another song from the upcoming album "Beneath Ancient Portals"....
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2018/04/10/an-ncs-premiere-abythic-beneath-ancient-portals-the-gate-of-ganzir/